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DECEMBER 6, 2018

One person pushing to put learning science into practice on college campuses is Sanjay Sarma, vice president for open learning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. They give instant feedback on exams. A lot of exams are going online. You have been researching learning science and digging into that.

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JULY 30, 2019

We’ve had a lot of success in the open-learning space, driving a fair amount of this growth,” he says. We’ve developed this set of teams that creates exemplary online-learning environments and experiences. In parallel, we’ve developed a team that builds tools that enhance the residential learning environment.

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JANUARY 14, 2019

Besides the snacks, there are weekend movie nights and parties after big events like final exams. Gibori also sells the concept as a sort of youth hangout lounge with Wi-Fi, where kids don’t even have to study. And parents aren’t just discouraged from tagging along—they’re outright banned.

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JULY 11, 2023

When you think about that in an educational context, it … really opens up the opportunity to give more students the kinds of things that are better supporting their learning.” “We've been trying to think about what are the deeper applications of this and what are ways that we can use those applications while keeping a human being in the loop?”

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JUNE 9, 2020

“Instrumenting” classrooms means being able to track what students are doing as they go through learning materials, such as digital textbooks and online labs, and seeing which behaviors tend to lead to the best performance on quizzes, exams or other measures of student learning.

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